Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next man was a brawny fellow in a white flannel shirt and knickerbockers. He kept going through gymnastic exercises while in the room, and was evidently an Athlete. He said, "Look here, what we want is a sporting paper. Here is a full report of the last hare and hounds run, with a long list of the men who fell...
...alas for the poor Editor! The Literary man was enraged because his article had been tampered with; the Athlete swore that his report was the only interesting thing in the paper; the Poet took arsenic because his choicest stanza had been left out; the Bummer looked in vain for his complaint about the janitors, and declared that the Editor was fawning on the Faculty; the Professor was disgusted with the complaints, and publicly reviled the paper at all his recitations; the Wit found that all the point of his article had been left out, and that his brevity jokes...
...informed that the Faculty contemplate substituting for the roll call of students in each section, a method of registration by which each student is expected to report three times each week to the Proctor of his building, or some other authority in case he does not room in a Proctor's building; this provision is made to prevent non-residence of students. We should be glad to see real voluntaries given to the College, which of course means the abolition of a meaningless roll-call, but cannot judge of the system of registration until further details are made public...
Although the Register has not yet appeared, may we not judge, from the prospectus, what its character will be? Every need which the prospectus promises to meet is already provided for by existing publications. The President's report is a special medium through which the Faculty expresses its opinion on college questions, and is also a source of information about the progress of the University to the alumni; while more detailed accounts are furnished by the bulletins of the several departments, - those of the Library, Observatory, and Bussey Institute. News of unusual interest is published both in the daily...
...announcement that the Christmas vacation is to be lengthened to two weeks, and the spring recess to ten days, is most welcome to the entire College, - instructors as well as students. The Corporation are to be most heartily thanked for this extension of our times of rest. Report says, however, that the reason of this change is that the college year is thirty-nine weeks long this year, instead of thirty-eight; and, as this extra week is out of the common course, it is to be given us in vacation. It is a well-known fact that the large...